Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dispute was engendered by the Poles painting the post boxes in the red and white colors of the Polish Republic. The Germans, outraged, retaliated by repainting them in the black, white and red colors of Imperial Germany. The fiery ire of Poles and Germans was temporarily abated by the whole question's being submitted to Mervyn Sorley Macdonnell, resident High Commissioner of the League of Nations...
...France, mère des armes, des arts et des lois, at Paris, ville lumière, cite des passions. Mlle. Stanislawa Uminska, beautiful young Polish actress, stood trial for the killing of her fiancé, Jean Zysnowsky, Polish author...
...Polish doctors advised radium treatment, said he would have to go to Paris for it. She threw up her work to accompany her sweetheart to the French capital; she nursed him tenderly ; she gave her own blood in a transfusion operation. It was all to no purpose; he grew worse and worse...
Germans awoke one fine morning to find that all the mail boxes had been painted white and red-the Polish national colors. The Danzig authorities protested, stating that Poland was permitted postal sovereignty only within the Polish postoffice. The protest fell upon deaf ears. The next night, Germans repainted the mail boxes black, white and red-the old colors of Imperial Germany. Poles, angered, demanded an apology. No apology was given; the authorities instead asked the League for a ruling...
...Warsaw, Polish capital, national ire scaled great heights. The press fumed, warned Danzig that, unless it were more careful, it might become heir to a military occupation. It also reminded the unhappy Germans in Danzig that Poland "has powerful friends" - France, Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia - and could carry out her threats...